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Castles


If you’re up to it, check out Scratches. This young man is an amazing storyteller. (If you know him personally, tell him to update his blog.)

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I wrote something, and thought I’d share it. Once again, it’s super short, even too short to be a novella, but a little longer than a regular blog post, so I added a cover and an About the Author page and book’d it up. If you’ve read my past posts before, you may know I’m not a big fan of reading blurbs, and even less a fan of writing them, so, no, there’s no summary. Go and be pleasantly surprised.

(Or horrified. But hopefully pleasantly surprised.)

It’s a PDF file (yes, again), and I’d appreciate feedback, whichever medium you choose to give it to me by. I do my best to eliminate typos, but I’m far from perfect, so feel free to point out any you see.

Click here to download it.

If, however, you don’t feel like it, then click here to not download it. Yes, I cater to all needs.

Happy reading.

Oh, wait. I didn’t even mention the title. It’s called Castles in Gomorrah. Yeah. I tried to include pidgin, but I’m not very… yeah just read it.

Peace.



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